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Villain Overview

That body of light is the sign of a super-dimensional life-form. Standard attacks won't work on him. He eats dimensions for lunch!
~ Dr. Eggman about Solaris.

Solaris, also known as the Sun God and the Flame of Hope, is the overarching antagonist of the 2006 platform game Sonic the Hedgehog. He is an omnipotent time-based deity whose goal is to completely snuff out time itself by devouring all timelines.

Despite having such a pivotal role in the game's narrative, he was not present for most of the game, due to having been split into two halves: The fiery Iblis, who is his raw power and the shadowy Mephiles the Dark, who is his cunning mind.

Biography[]

Past[]

Ancient Solaris history

Solaris being praised by ancient people of Soleanna

Solaris' backstory for the most part remains a mystery. However, according to the ancient carvings found in the Dusty Desert, Solaris had at one point in time visited the ancient people of Soleanna in the form of an incarnation of a griffon. Following his visit, he turned into an object of worship to the people and his eagle-like form became the official emblem of Soleanna.

At some point for unknown reason and by unknown means, Solaris has been reduced to a small sentient flame which was praised and beloved by the citizens of the coastal city-estate/nation of Soleanna as their patron deity, the flame he had been "entrusted" to the Soleannean royal family ruling over Soleanna and its people at some point in the past and had remained under the protection of them and within the bowels of the former Soleannean royal palace in Kingdom Valley for an unprecedented amount of time.

The Soleanna Sun Festival

The Soleanna Sun Festival

In the Soleannean culture, the Kingdom of Soleanna held an annual holiday called the "Soleanna Sun Festival" to honor their god as they celebrate with lights, fireworks, and ceremonial dancing. The final part of the festival begins and ends with members of the Soleannean royal family, accompanied by religious Soleannean priests in yellow hooded robes, offering prayers to Solaris with hopes of bright and prosperous years for Soleanna as they lit the city's treasured stone monument called the "Altar of Light" (also called the "Altar of Flame") in the center of the city square.

During the reign of the Duke of Soleanna, the Duke secretly conducted experiments on the deity, known as the Solaris Project, in order to gain and use his powers over time to both allow humanity to correct its past sins, and also to allow himself and his daughter Elise, so she could see her mother once again. Once Solaris' flame had grown significantly large enough, the Solaris Project was initiated, leading to several experiments being performed on Solaris. However, during one such experiment, Solaris became unstable, ignoring the Duke of Soleanna's pleas and the spacial meltdown split Solaris into two lesser entities: Iblis, his raw power and Mephiles the Dark, his cunning mind. Mephiles was sealed into an artifact known as the Scepter of Darkness by the time-traveling Shadow the Hedgehog, while the Duke was forced to seal Iblis inside of Princess Elise's soul. Before dying from wounds caused by the accident, he told his daughter to grow up to be a strong queen who would never cry as doing so would destroy the seal on Iblis which is said to bring about the Day of Disaster upon its awakening.

Sonic '06[]

Mephiles is eventually freed and he begins plotting to bring vengeance on humanity and to reunite with Iblis; making Princess Elise cry by killing Sonic the Hedgehog, thereby releasing Iblis and the two beings whose fusion empowered by the magical energy of the Chaos Emeralds, join to form Solaris again. Solaris immediately plunges the world into darkness and prepares to devour time itself by consume all existing timelines.

Before he can achieve this, however, he is defeated by a combined assault from Super Shadow, Super Silver and a resurrected Super Sonic, where the heroes and their allies manage to defeat Solaris by destroying his consciousness. Solaris' defeat reverts him back to his original form, the "Flame of Hope", and spirits Elise and Sonic back to before the fateful experiment. After some contemplation, Princess Elise chooses to blow out the very radiant fire that would become Solaris and thus change history by erasing his corporeal form from existence.

With Solaris gone, the Festival of the Sun along with all of Soleanna's history and God's imagery remained, to this day the Sun God is praised by it's citizen and history of events of the game being actually remembered only by Sonic and Elise.

Appearance[]

The Flame of Solaris

The sun god's original form, the Flame of Hope.

Who knew such a tiny flame could bring such devastation?
~ Princess Elise the Third about Solaris (aka the Flame of Hope).

Prior to the Solaris Project, Solaris was nothing more than a tiny, pearly white, flicking flame. Later one, he was split in half accidentally during a spatial meltdown, resulting in his existence being split between Iblis and Mephiles. However, after the two reunite, Solaris appears more like a creature than a flame - manifesting as a hawk-shaped skeletal apparition, recognizable from the Soleanna royal crest worshipped as sacred by the citizens of Soleanna for countless years. During the battle against him, Solaris' main body is revealed to be a rather simple figure: He has a large and transparent body made of pure light, with a red orb that is his consciousness/core in the center of his body. He has no head, his upper body only includes the top piece above his core, with a curve behind his "neck", and his lower body resembles a stalactite. He has three fingers on each claw-like hand with no visible palms, and his arms are not connected to his body at his shoulders.

The Sun God

The Sun God aka Solaris.

In Solaris' first form, he is a incandescent, vaguely half-humanoid figure, with rocky cladding on its arms. He has three shells of light covering his body, giving him a more complex appearance. He has one shell covering each of his upper arms, and one main shell on his body. The lower part of the main shell covers his "chest" area, as well as his core, and the top part of it has a figure, resembling an eagle head with glowing yellow eyes and antlers. This makes it look like Solaris actually has a head. On his back he has a ring with six triangular pieces "attached", making it resemble a sun.

Solaris the Flame of Hope

Solaris, the Flame of Hope.

In his second form, Solaris is a seemingly skeletal, hawk-shaped entity. While in this form, he loses his light shells, exposing his main body. On his back, he now has a long plate, with a set of wings "attached", where each wing is made up of five segments.

Powers and Abilities[]

  • Power: Solaris is the most powerful villain that Sonic has ever faced. Along with possessing several godlike traits and powers. Super Sonic, Super Shadow and Super Silver were needed to destroy him (but they could not do it because he is immortal). As another testament to his enormous strength, Solaris is one of the few beings seen that has been able to injure someone in a super transformation through sheer force alone.
  • Nigh-Invulnerable: Solaris unaffected by standard attacks from even super transformed characters. Even when unprotected, Solaris's natural durability was so high that only super-charged Chaos Powers from super transformed characters could damage him, hinting an immeasurably high level of durability.
  • Omnipresence: Solaris existed in the past, present and future simultaneously, making him appear throughout time and being virtually impossible to defeat.
  • Temporal Manipulation: Solaris could create, control, and even destroy the entire fabric of time.
    • Temporal Consumption: According to Dr. Eggman, Solaris was capable of devouring entire space-time continuums on an incomprehensible scale, encompassing entire dimensions and timelines.
    • Temporal Rift Opening: Solaris could also create rifts within the time-space continuum which come in two variants: black orbs that can suck objects into oblivion as if they were black holes, and red orbs.
      • Meteor Projection: Solaris' red orbs could hurl meteors of condensed matter with such force that they could bypass the invulnerability granted by a Super State.
  • Energy Blasts: Solaris could fire purple lasers which were able to bypass the invulnerability granted by a Super State.
  • Tracking Blasts: Solaris could fire purple orbs which would follow the enemy until it hit them.
  • Shapeshifting: Solaris was capable of at least limited shape shifting, allowing him to assume new and stronger physical forms, as seen when he changed the sun-like appendage on his back into wings and became even more powerful.
  • Mutation: After taking enough damage, Solaris could transform into a more powerful second form.
    • Impenetrable Forcefield: Solaris demonstrated the ability to generate an almost impenetrable shield of light that could block any attack.
  • Reformation: If his other temporal forms weren't destroyed with him, Solaris could reform unharmed from his remains.
  • Impenetrable Forcefield: Solaris demonstrated the ability to generate an impenetrable shield of light that could block any attack.
  • Psychokinesis: According to Princess Elise and Dr. Eggman, Solaris also possessed psychokinetic abilities, further enforced by his relationship to Iblis, his raw power alone.

Weaknesses[]

  • Temporal Assault: Solaris could be killed if he was simultaneously attacked in all three time periods that he manifested in.
  • Super Powered Enemies: Solaris could be hurt by enemies empowered by the Chaos Emeralds.
  • Attacks: In order to attack, Solaris had to drop his impenetrable forcefield which allowed his enemies to attack.
  • Core: Solaris' only weak-point was the red core that acted as his brain since attacking it enough would slay him.
    • Mental Shattering: As speculated by Dr. Eggman, destroying Solaris' consciousness would leave him an empty shell and revert him back to his original form - the only form in which he is truly vulnerable as he can easily be extinguished.

In Other Media[]

Sun God

Solaris the Sun God as seen in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series.

In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series by Archie Comics, Solaris was initially hinted to have made an appearance in the comics' continuity by writer Ian Flynn, who confirmed that the events of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) had occurred in the comics. Solaris was later officially revealed to have appeared in the comics in The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia though it has yet to appear in the storyline. Much like in the game, Solaris was originally a flame which was split into Mephiles and Iblis during experiments conducted by the Duke of Soleanna and his researchers. Solaris was eventually restored due to the actions of Mephiles and prepared to destroy time, but was stopped, and eventually erased from existence by Sonic the Hedgehog and Princess Elise.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • The six stones behind Solaris turn clockwise with Sonic and Shadow being controlled however with Silver, his stones turn counter clockwise (after several hits).
  • In his first phase, Solaris has six stones on his back, six claws and six horn segments on his head. This may be a reference to the number 666, which is generally the accepted "Number of the Beast" from the Christian Bible's Book of Revelation. The angelic second form of Solaris can also be looked upon as the true form of Satan (originally known as Lucifer), meaning that Solaris is the closest character in the Sonic universe had to the fallen angel archetype of Satan.
  • Solaris, at least in its second form, looks remarkably like part of the crest of Hyrule from the Legend of Zelda series.
  • In his second phase, he vaguely resembles the legendary fire bird known as the phoenix, which symbolizes sun, rebirth and immortality, he is also directly called it in the official Sonic 06 guidebook
  • Solaris' own core is closely resembled by that of the Time Eater from Sonic Generations. Further similarities between the two bosses include their shared power of time travel, and the fact that they can destroy the timeline with relative ease.
  • In further reference to the Book of Revelation, Solaris' two halves, Mephiles and Iblis, represent the False Prophet and the Beast respectively. Both creatures' names are also derived from synonyms for The Devil.
  • The Time Eater has a similar ability: to alter (and destroy) time and many of powers that Solaris has.
  • Solaris is one the few final bosses to be canonically battled by more than one super transformed character, or by one super transformed character and a character transformed in a similar way; the other ones who have that trait are the Finalhazard, the Time Eater, the Egg Salamander and the Egg Wizard.
    • Out of all of these bosses, however, Solaris is the only one that required more than two super transformed characters to defeat, with a total of three.
  • In the second phase of Solaris, the music is an instrumental remix of "His World".
  • Solaris was first hinted to have existed within the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book universe when Ian Flynn confirmed that the events of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) had occurred in the comics on the Ask Ian discussion board. It was first later in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia that Solaris was officially revealed to have existed, along with details about its history.
  • The Archie Comics was originally going to have Solaris be in the main story of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series. However, the character was scrapped, and only an artwork picture is left of the idea.
  • Mephiles made a cameo in the Zone Jail in the "Scourge: Lockdown" arc of Sonic Universe, meaning that part of Solaris may have survived. Though it's likely just another Mephiles from other Zone/Universe in Archie Multiverse
  • While Solaris's origins are unknown, in Archie Comics some believed him to be one of the Seven Ixis Master Works, a set of mysterious creations rumored to be crafted by Mammoth Mogul and the Order of Ixis, while others believe it always existed.
    • Others also view him as being connected in some way to The End from Sonic Frontiers, or at the very least was created by it, due to the fact that they appear to have similar goals in mind, destroying existence. This is also assuming that Sonic had actually remembered the events of Sonic 06 happening after blowing out Solaris' flame, and The End was able to read those memories particularly when declaring itself infinite.
  • When asked on the BumbleKast, if the End is the strongest enemy Sonic has ever faced, Ian Flynn gave the opinion that Solaris is probably the most powerful, with The End in second place.
  • There is a possibility that even after Flame of Hope was snuffed out by Elise, Solaris remains alive in some form to this day due to his nature as a Sun God who exists in all points in time all together, by that logic and considering Soleanna's history, if he really was erased from all points in time, Soleanna's entire history along with it's culture would drastically change, but with Festival of the Sun still around, there is a possibility that Sun God himself is as well.
  • According to official Sonic 06 guidebook, after being experimented on, Solaris was Crazed by lasting effects of the Project Solaris, combined with Mephiles' lines about punishment of humanity, it might indicate, that Solaris' true motive is Vengeance against Humanity for what they did to him.

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